50 Years After the Race
Race Participants Celebrate Again at the Garden City Hotel
The 50th anniversary of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race was celebrated in 1954 at an appropriate location, the Garden City Hotel. Holding the Vanderbilt Cup were three participants in the race, George Arents Jr. (left), driver of the crashed #5 Mercedes, Joe Tracy (right), driver of the #3 Royal Tourist, and his mechanician Al Poole (center).
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1904
- Creating the First International Road Race in America
- The 1904 Course and Headquarters
- The Start-Finish Line in Westbury
- They’re Off: Heading to the Hamlet of Jericho
- Action During the 1904 Race
- Controls in Hicksville and Hempstead
- The Fatal Accident
- The 1904 Finish
- 50 Years After the Race
- 1904 Race Statistics
- 1904 Race Summary
Feature
The 128-page book by Howard Kroplick, a researcher and lecturer on the races, contains rare images of the races from the archives of major museums, libraries and private collectors. The book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island will be available from Arcadia Publishing in March 2008.
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